Word Meanings - DISGRACIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.

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• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• GRACE
  The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. And if by grace, then is it no more of
• GRACEFUL
  Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• GRACELESS
  1. Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. "In a graceless age." Milton. 2. Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4. Chaucer. -- Grace"less*ly, adv. -- Grace"less-ness, n.
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• WANTAGE
  That which is wanting; deficiency.
• UNPLEASANTRY
  1. Want of pleasantry. 2. A state of disagreement; a falling out. Thackeray.
• DISAGREEABLE
  1. Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; Preach you truly the doctrine which you have received, and each nothing that is disagreeable thereunto. Udall. 2. Exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or That which is disagreeable to one is
• WANTONIZE
  To behave wantonly; to frolic; to wanton. Lamb.
• WANTY
  A surcingle, or strap of leather, used for binding a load upon
• UNPLEASIVE
  Unpleasant. "An unpleasive passion." Bp. Hall.
• WANTRUST
  Failing or diminishing trust; want of trust or confidence; distrust. Chaucer.
• WANT
  A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place. Syn. -- Indigence; deficiency; defect; destitution; lack; failure; dearth; scarceness. (more info) 1. The state of not having; the condition of being without
• UNPLEASANT
  Not pleasant; not amiable or agreeable; displeasing; offensive. -- Un*pleas"ant*ly, adv. -- Un*pleas"ant*ness, n.
• WANTING
  Absent; lacking; missing; also, deficient; destitute; needy; as, one of the twelve is wanting; I shall not be wanting in exertion.
• WANTONLY
  1. In a wanton manner; without regularity or restraint; loosely; sportively; gayly; playfully; recklessly; lasciviously. 2. Unintentionally; accidentally. J. Dee.
• GRACED
  Endowed with grace; beautiful; full of graces; honorable. Shak.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
• AGGRACE
  To favor; to grace. "That knight so much aggraced." Spenser.
• SCAPEGRACE
  A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless. Beaconsfield.
• SEAWAN; SEAWANT
  The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money. Note: Seawan was of two kinds; wampum, white, and suckanhock, black or purple, -- the former having half the value of the latter. Many
• BONGRACE
  A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat.
• OVERGRACE
  To grace or honor exceedingly or beyond desert. Beau. & Fl.
• DISGRACE
  1. The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect. Macduff lives in disgrace. Shak. 2. The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy. To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honor
• BOWGRACE
  A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice.
• UNGRACEFUL
  Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful manners; ungraceful speech. The other oak remaining a blackened and ungraceful trunk. Sir W. Scott. -- Un*grace"ful*ly, adv. --
• DISGRACER
  One who disgraces.